Only a very minor problem in the plethora of crises facing the Republican Party is what any loyal party knows as RINOs--which is shorthand for Republicans in Name Only.
These are officials elected as Republicans, who consistently vote in their career with the Democrats. Two of them sported their true colors, as if it was a big surprise, yesterday--and announced their endorsement of Barack Obama for president.
Former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, a longstanding thorn in the side of House Republicans, and former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, as a well as an obscure mayor--so obscure most media didn't even give his name--came out of the closet and did what they've been doing for years anyway, and endorsed Obama. The liberal mass media predictably played it up like it was a big deal.
The trio will head a Republicans for Obama, which probably won't affect the election much, one way or the other.
Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman has already endorsed, and is actively campaigning for, the presumptive GOP nomnee, Sen. John McCain. He is a much bigger hitter, in the overall scheme of things, than any of the RINOs. In fact, he still holds office and has four years to go. He was the vice presidential nominee under Al Gore, and was re-elected in Connecticut to his latest term over both a Republican and a liberal Democrat, who had beaten him the primary. Running as an independent, Lieberman bested everyone.
Lieberman has a much better shot at shaking loose moderate and conservative Democrats for McCain, than the RINO trio does at generating much support for Obama. Lieberman is much more in the mainstream of the Democratic Party than Leach and Chaffee ever were in the GOP. McCain is much more moderate and mainstream in the GOP, while Obama is firmly rooted in the far-left reaches of the Democratic Party.
A big yawn to the Republicans for McCain, who are probably caucassing today, in a phone booth near you.
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